The real problem is not that you keep picking the wrong people.
The real problem is that your brain learned a long time ago what love feels like, what conflict feels like, what distance feels like, what safety feels like, and what belonging costs. So now your body is still reacting to present-day relationships through old family training.
That is why calm can feel boring.
That is why kind can feel suspicious.
That is why emotionally unavailable can feel magnetic.
That is why one small disagreement can feel like abandonment.
That is why being seen can feel dangerous.
It’s not you. It’s the program.
If your family taught you that love meant criticism, distance, chaos, walking on eggshells, fixing other people, earning approval, or never really feeling chosen, then that is what your body learned to expect. And until that program changes, your system will keep trying to recreate what it knows, even when what it knows hurts.